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Born
December 20, 1979 · Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
His skills and tricks in basketball led him to score some commercials. He even had a basketball scholarship in Michigan at age 14.
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Born
December 20, 1983 · Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth name
Jonah Hill Feldstein
QUOTES:
It’s harder to be funny if you’re handsome than if you’re very normal-looking. It’s just more relatable. You’re the underdog. I mean it’s funny to see people struggle, and you don’t buy that Brad Pitt is struggling, you know that guy could be the most skill-less guy in the world, but if you look like that you will be fine for the rest of your life.
[on Henry Winkler and their family at Zoe Winkler’s wedding] I spent 48 percent of my youth here..They were like parents to all of our friends. We got parents and then we got the Winklers. I feel like my sister’s getting married.
I despise common people. They make me throw up.
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Born
December 20, 1955 · New York City, New York, USA
QUOTES:
[Interview, 2005] My life changed after Just One of the Guys (1985). People stopped looking at my face and looked at my chest instead.
[on how the movie Just One of the Guys (1985) was more than your average high school comedy] Although it may be cloaked in a silly teenage romp, I was absolutely drawn to this project because of its subversive gender identity messages (for both young men and young women). The film actually operates on so many different levels and deals with so many teenage issues from homophobia to the pressure that is put on kids to conform to a certain ideal, that it always surprised me that at the time of its release, it was not really judged for the sum of all its parts.
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Born
December 20, 1990 · Brattleboro, Vermont, USA
Birth name
Joanna Noëlle Levesque
QUOTES:
I’m not Britney mark two. It’s unfair that people compare us. I guess we are both young artists but we’re totally different.
I’m not trying to be like the cleanest person who’s, like, never gonna show her stomach or anything, but I think I’m real for real girls.
“I like a guy who can survive the streets. I like to feel like if I were ever in trouble, he would help me. I like to feel like a guy is a real dude-dude”.
[on her experience in school]: “I got along with some people, but a lot of kids disliked me in school. I’d be doing TV since I was six, and I think they thought that I thought I was better than them. That was never the case—I didn’t even talk about TV in school! I’d be walking down the hall, and they would yell at me or push me into the wall. It really hurt. So I was afraid to go to school. I would stay in the guidance counselor’s office for lunch, just because I didn’t feel like I had a place.”
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Born
December 19, 1986 · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Birth name
Anne Frances Murphy
Spouse
Menno Versteeg(August 20, 2011 – present)
QUOTES:
Oh my god! The 6 years that I spent working on this show have been the best 6 years of my entire life, and I’m so, so, proud of the cast, and the crew, and the writers, and I can’t believe that Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara are my friends. I’m so proud to be a part of a show that’s about love, kindness, inclusively, and acceptance because those are 4 things that we need more than ever right now. And hi to my family and friends and I love you so, so, much and this is really, really wild. Thank you so, so, much! -Emmy Awards Acceptance speech
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Born
December 19, 1980 · San Francisco, California, USA
Birth name
Marla Lynne Sokoloff
Spouse
Alec Puro(November 8, 2009 – present) (3 children)
QUOTES:
The most frustrating thing for me as a singer is that people have pinpointed me as an actress who suddenly woke up one day and decided that I wanted to sing.
I’m pretty sure this is it for the teen movie thing. It’s so frustrating to read when you get to page 20 and you’re like, Oy! It’s the same thing again!
I didn’t go to a normal high school. It was for people in the performing arts.
An agent saw one of the plays I did at ACT, but my mom was like, No, she’s too young. I became so annoying that a year and a half later she just couldn’t stand hearing me any more!
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Born: December 18, 1964 (age 60 years), Victoria, Texas, United States
Spouse: Kristin Austin (m. 2009), Debra Marshall (m. 2000–2003), Lady Blossom (m. 1992–1999), Kathryn Burrhus (m. 1990–1992)
Full name: Steven James Anderson
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QUOTES:
“You Want Some Ketchup With That A** Whooping?”
“I Like Ya, Not Very Much, But I Like Ya” Is What Austin Told Kurt Angle
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Born: December 18, 1975 (age 49 years), Richmond Hill
Spouse: Ron Fisico (m. 2006)
Full name: Patricia Anne Stratigias
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Born
December 18, 1954 · Newark, New Jersey, USA
Died
May 26, 2022 · Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (heart and respiratory complications)
Birth name
Raymond Allen Liotta
QUOTES:
Something Wild (1986) was my first movie. I was in an acting class and on a soap opera for three-and-a-half years in New York – I moved to L.A. at 25 and nothing was really going on for like a five-year period. I was still in acting class, I was in class all through Goodfellas (1990) actually, and I talked to some of the guys and they said, “Are you up for this movie, Something Wild?” and I said, “No.” But I decided I really wanted to be up for it even though [Jonathan] Demme had already narrowed it down to three people. I’d been to college with Melanie Griffith’s then-husband Steven Bauer and I called her up and said, “y’know, can you get me in and I felt weird about it, but here I am, thirty years old and I haven’t done anything yet and I’d read the script and felt like I could do that as well as anyone out there so why not me?” She got me in, she insisted that Jonathan see me, and it just worked out with me.
“Nothing. It’s just make-believe. I don’t think it’s good to personalize it. If you do, it’s limiting. The actors that do personalize it are the ones that always seem the same in every movie they do. I don’t really look at it in any kind of deep psychological way that I learn something about myself. Aside from taking up the acting challenges, I’m really glad I took on the challenge of playing Sinatra, as scary as it was. I learned somewhat about myself – that I could do it and I knew what was bothering me – the fears that I had.” – On what he learns about himself through the characters he plays.
I wasn’t crazy about the way things were going. I wanted to be a little more proactive with my career instead of waiting for something to come to me, so I formed a production company with my wife [Michelle Grace] and a partner, Diane Nabatoff, and changed agents – I really just wanted to clean house and start fresh. The first script I got was Narc (2002) and I really responded to it; it reminded me of a 70s type movie, I really liked the characters, I didn’t anticipate the ending. I wanted to go that way and really get proactive with my career – take some control in it and redirect it in a direction that I liked.
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Born
December 18, 1980 · Staten Island, New York City, New York, USA
Birth name
Christina Maria Aguilera
Spouse
Jordan Bratman (November 19, 2005 – April 15, 2011) (divorced, 1 child)
QUOTES:
[on Eminem’s lyrics in “The Real Slim Shady” which contained sexual references about her] It’s disgusting and offensive and above all it’s not true.
[on singing the remake of “Lady Marmalade” with P!nk, Mya and Lil’ Kim] It’s the closest I ever got to being in a girl group.
I like to be edgy, I like to be different. I’m a little bit of rebel.
[After winning an MTV Award for the video, “Lady Marmalade”, shared with singers Mya, P!nk and Lil’ Kim] The big hair paid off!
It’s funny how society places such strict standards upon young blonde females. We’re supposed to play the clean-cut view the public wants of us. But I am not your little cookie-cutter virgin.
It’s human nature to have a sexual side.
I think that whatever size or shape body you have, it’s important to embrace it and get down! The female body is something that’s so beautiful. I wish women would be proud of their bodies and not dis other women for being proud of theirs!
You can take it or leave it, but I’m not going to change, not for anyone.
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